hypochondriac
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Doctors “called me a hypochondriac and said it was just anxiety and depression,” said Hannah Powell, a 26-year-old Utah woman who went undiagnosed for five years.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
Danny is agoraphobic, socially anxious, obsessive, something of a hypochondriac and nominally a journalist, that most nominal of television professions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
It was a diagnosis that made "complete sense" to the singer and reassured the self-confessed hypochondriac that he was not dying.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2023
A young woman with a generally healthy lifestyle, “I totally get why a GP would dismiss my self-diagnosis of bowel cancer especially in a neurotic hypochondriac such as myself,” she wrote on her blog.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
I was feeling pretty lucky right then that JonPaul is a total hypochondriac who’s always worried that he’s coming down with something rare and dangerous.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
Were people who claimed that the world was making them sick just a bunch of hypochondriacs?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
No. I have a couple hypochondriacs in my house, so I let them deal with that.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2022
The condition is so unusual, patients are often misdiagnosed or dismissed as hypochondriacs.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 27, 2021
There’s the thief and his dolt of a sidekick, ironically nicknamed “the Brain”; a newly arrived doctor faced with a daily parade of petty hypochondriacs; and a barber who doubles as a D.I.Y. dentist.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021
Like most hypochondriacs, he had an oddly soothing bedside manner.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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